Stroker McGurk Cartoon Series - McGurk Mementos - Rods & Customs

Cartoons: Tom Medley
Except for a brief comeback bid between 1964 and 1965, Tom Medley's legendary Stroker McGurk cartoon series ended more than 40 years ago. Yet McGurk's eight-year run-starting in March 1948 and finishing with the October 1955 issue of HOT ROD-served as a harbinger. Medley's fertile imagination predated wheelies, ram-air systems, drag chutes, blown overheads, multi-engine dragsters, sleepers, gassers and vintage tin, and aftermarket kits that didn't fit. So sit back for the next four pages and see why Stroker McGurk became hot rodding's favorite foul-up.

2/14Tom Medley mixed business and artistic talent with pleasure and his love of hot rods to create Stroker McGurk, one of hot rodding's most enduring characters. Surrounded by some of his "Strokers," this was Medley at work 43 years ago.